Episode 0: Introducing the Writers Revealed Podcast with L. Trey Wilson and Gregg T. Daniel
After a year of presenting Writers Revealed through live virtual events, Lower Depth Theatre is excited to share these riveting stories and thought-provoking conversations through our new podcast.
Dive into polished pieces and works-in-progress from award-winning playwrights and screenwriters in a brand new way as the writers read their own work. Then, gain an in-depth look into both writers as a moderator leads them through a conversation about everything from their writing routines to their go-to brand of soap.
You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll buy a vintage typewriter out of principle.
In this episode, Gregg T. Daniel, Artistic Director of Lower Depth Theatre, discusses the inception and purpose of our Writers Revealed program with L. Trey Wilson. This masterful moderator guided many of the profound conversations between each pair of writers.
Then Gregg turns the tables on L. Trey and puts him in the interview chair. L. Trey reveals how an acting gig became his origin story as an EDI facilitator. He relates his own experiences leading the conversations with the writers and how they fulfilled his craving for conversation and art during the pandemic.
L. Trey Wilson
Actor, writer, director, and EDI facilitator
L. Trey Wilson is an actor/writer/director and facilitator for conversations involving race, gender, culture and sexuality. Acting credits include: Six Degrees of Separation, A Lesson Before Dying One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, True West.
Television/Film credits; Law and Order, Special Victims Unit, Monk, Miller’s Court, Speed Racer, Three Takes and Sense 8.
Plays written by Trey include; Stage Directions, Turn, Cause, Three Part Disharmony, All About Esther, Stay, Something Happened.
Trey is the recipient of The LA Ovation Award, The LA Weekly Award, The NAACP Award, The GLAAD Award, The Backstage West Garland Award and The LA Drama Critics Circle Award and was featured on the NPR show, ALL THINGS CONSIDERED.
Gregg T. Daniel
Artistic Director of Lower Depth Theatre
Gregg T. Daniel is the Artistic Director of Lower Depth Theatre. A graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Gregg has an established history as a theatre director and has received multiple nominations and awards. Credits include the West Coast premieres of Her Portmanteau by Mfoniso Udofia at Boston Court Theatre, Br’er Cotton by Tearrance Arvelle Chisolm at Lower Depth Theatre, Lorraine Hansberry’s Les Blancs with Rogue Machine Theatre, (Ovation nominated-Best Director), the L.A. premiere of Honky by Greg Kalleres, A Raisin in the Sun at A Noise Within (Ovation nominated- Best Director, Best Production), and August Wilson’s, Gem of the Ocean (Ovation nominated-Best Production) also at A Noise Within. Gregg is a recipient of the NAACP’s Best Director award for the International City Theatre’s production of Fences by August Wilson (nominated-L.A. Drama Critics Circle, Ovation and StageScene LA awards.)